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Esther González
- Position:
- Forward
- Nationality:
- Spain
- Born:
- 1992-12-08 (age 33)
- Height:
- 160 cm
Career (2023–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 69 GP · 5,531 min · 30 goals · 5 assists
Composite 2026: 0.725 — ranked 47 of 385 Composite page →
Standard Stats
| Playing Time | Performance | Per 90 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rk | Season ▴ | Team | GP | GS | Min | Gls | Ast | PK | Sh | SoT | KP | Pass% | CrdY | CrdR | Gls/90 | G+A/90 |
| 1 | 2023 | Gotham FC | 8 | 6 | 592 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 71.9 | 1 | 0 | 0.46 | 0.46 |
| 2 | 2024 | Gotham FC | 23 | 20 | 1791 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 45 | 23 | 23 | 82.3 | 1 | 0 | 0.50 | 0.70 |
| 3 | 2025 | Gotham FC | 25 | 24 | 2096 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 49 | 30 | 17 | 76.8 | 2 | 0 | 0.56 | 0.60 |
| 4 | 2026 | Gotham FC | 13 | 11 | 1052 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 27 | 13 | 13 | 80.1 | 0 | 0 | 0.34 | 0.34 |
| 4 Yrs | 69 | 61 | 5531 | 30 | 5 | 4 | 135 | 77 | 58 | 78.8 | 4 | 0 | 0.49 | 0.57 | ||
Advanced Stats
| Expected | VAEP | Threat | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rk | Season ▴ | Team | Min | Gls | xG | G−xG | xG/90 | VAEP | Off | Def | VAEP/90 | xT | xT/90 | DAxT |
| 1 | 2023 | Gotham FC | 592 | 3 | 1.62 | 1.38 | 0.25 | 0.51 | 0.70 | -0.19 | 0.08 | 0.25 | 0.04 | 0.059 |
| 2 | 2024 | Gotham FC | 1791 | 10 | 5.91 | 4.09 | 0.30 | 4.96 | 4.98 | -0.02 | 0.25 | 1.42 | 0.07 | 0.140 |
| 3 | 2025 | Gotham FC | 2096 | 13 | 8.93 | 4.07 | 0.38 | 7.21 | 7.62 | -0.41 | 0.31 | 1.24 | 0.05 | 0.161 |
| 4 | 2026 | Gotham FC | 1052 | 4 | 5.96 | -1.96 | 0.51 | 0.00 | 0.13 | -0.13 | 0.00 | 4.31 | 0.37 | 0.063 |
| 4 Yrs | 5531 | 30 | 22.42 | 7.58 | 0.36 | 12.68 | 13.43 | -0.75 | 0.21 | 7.22 | 0.12 | 0.423 | ||
Composite Rating
Our overall player rating, unique to this site: five components — xG, ball carries, passes into the box, defensive value, and goalkeeping — combined into one score and averaged across every selection-model run of the season. Rank is her place among all rated players that year.
| Components | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rk | Season ▴ | xG | Carries | Box Passes | Defense | GK | Composite | Rank | Pool |
| 1 | 2024 | 1.046 | -1.468 | 2.456 | -0.559 | 0.318 | 140 | 338 | |
| 2 | 2025 | 1.621 | -1.497 | 2.556 | -0.992 | 0.543 | 60 | 258 | |
| 3 | 2026 | 1.417 | -0.095 | 1.685 | -0.850 | 0.000 | 0.725 | 47 | 385 |
Structural Roles
Start counts by role, per season — twice. Explicit is where the team sheet wrote her; Inferredis what a model reading only her on-ball events made of each start. The Read column states each season's verdict from the two most common roles.
| Explicit (Team Sheet) | Inferred (Event Data) | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rk | Season ▴ | Starts | GK | FB | CB | DM | CM | AM | W | ST | GK | FB | CB | DM | CM | AM | W | ST | Read |
| 1 | 2023 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 4 | played her role | |||||||||||
| 2 | 2024 | 21 | 4 | 1 | 16 | 4 | 5 | 12 | played her role | ||||||||||
| 3 | 2025 | 24 | 3 | 1 | 20 | 1 | 3 | 20 | played her role | ||||||||||
| 4 | 2026 | 11 | 11 | 1 | 10 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 4 Yrs | 62 | 8 | 2 | 52 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 46 | played her role | |||||||||
Similar Players
Nearest neighbors by playing-style embedding (most recent embedded season). Similarity is cosine distance in style space, not quality.
| Rk | Player | Team | Season | Pos | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jess Fishlock | Reign | 2026 | Midfielder | 0.646 |
| 2 | Alex Pfeiffer | KC Current | 2025 | Forward | 0.612 |
| 3 | Reilyn Turner | Racing Lou | 2024 | Forward | 0.568 |
| 4 | Valérie Marie Christelle Gauvin | Dash | 2022 | Forward | 0.557 |
| 5 | Maddie Mercado | Reign | 2026 | Midfielder | 0.538 |
| 6 | Brittany Ratcliffe | Spirit | 2025 | Forward | 0.517 |
| 7 | Makenzy Robbe | Dash | 2026 | Forward | 0.504 |
| 8 | Sydney Leroux | Angel City | 2023 | Forward | 0.494 |
| 9 | Izzy D'Aquila | Thorns | 2023 | Forward | 0.493 |
| 10 | Caroline Conti | Bay | 2024 | Forward | 0.492 |